Congratulations Leslie! I am one week in on my diet. I cut out all dairy, no sugar, no ice cream, no chips. I eat mostly veggies and high protein meats. For snacks I munch on lightly salted almonds, and a mango here and there. I also take Slimvance from GNC 30 minutes before dinner/breakfast. Well before this I weighed 231. Yesterday the scaled showed me at 224, so I lost 7 pounds in one week. I have five more weeks to go.